Improvement in mustache-guard for drinking-vessels



".PETERS, PKOTWLITPOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

f tueurA gaat @anni @More n. w. H.v BASS, or QUINoY, MASSACHUSETTS.

Laim Patent No. 100,580, dated March s, 1870.

. IMPROVEMENT IN MUSTACHE-G-UARD IOR DRINKING-VESSELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Pateutpand making part of the'same To all whom it may concern :A y v Be it known that I, E. BASS, of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk, andv State of` Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Mustache-Guard; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in. conl nection with the drawings, which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufficientto enable those skilled in the art to into parts turned downward, so that one part of each end will goover the lim, and so that the other part will go into the vessel'within the rim, both parts bearing against the rim,` the bars being turned on the joint so as to leave an opening between them and the rim, through which fluid can flow from` the vessel to the users lips while his mustache rests on the bars, which extend over the vessel like a bridge.

In the drawings- Figure l shows, in elevation, one of my guards at cached toa tumbler.

Figure 2 is a plan of. what is shown in g. 1.

Figure 3 is a reversed plan of the guard removed from the tumbler, and extended to its greatest length.

y Figure 4 is a plan ofthe same'guard, folded ,into its smallest'compass.

Figures 5 and 6 show modified forms of the guard. Fig. 6 shows the simplest form .of guard, made of two bars all), pivot-cd together atc, the outer ends of each bar being bifurcated, and the parts d-and c bent downward, the parts e extending further from th center c than the parts d, so thatthe former will go upon or over the outside of the vessel f, While the latter. goes inside of the rim off.

In figs. l, 2, 3, and 4, one of the barsa has a jointed end piece, g, attached to it, by which the guard can be more readily attached to the vesself, as the guard can be more readily and extensively dexed than it can with a single joint, and by which it can be shut up .into smaller compass, to be carried in the pocket, than would be the case if made with two bars a, and b,

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In lig. 5, eachbar a and bis shown as provid-ed with an end piece, g, increasingthe capacity of ilexure in the guard. n I

The parts el and e, when made of thin and comparatively soft sheet metal, can he readily bent to shut over rims of'vessels ot' different thicknesses, though when set so as to be lit for vessels of moderate thickness, the guard holds with suicient firmness on thin- `arms, with or without jointed end pieces, when provided with parts e and d, substantially as and for the purpose described.

A E.v W. H. BASS. Witnesses: FRANCIS GoULD S. B. KIDDER. 

